The act by which an officer renounces the further exercise of his office and returns the same into the bauds of those from whom he received it. In ecclesiastical law . Besignation is where a parson, vicar, or other beneficed clergyman voluntarily gives up and surrenders his charge aud preferment to those from whom he received the same. It is usually done by an Instrument attested by a notary. Phillim. Ecc. Law, 517. In Scotch law. The return of a fee into the hands of the superior. Bell.
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